... as burgesses seems to have been a local feature that remarkable period of Whig supremacy which followed the enthronement of George I. That monarch, owing his throne to the Whigs, unable to speak English and having no interest in English politics, placed ...

... thirty years at least forty tree - brothers rejected. mnce this was the erreat era Whig supremacy and chicanery, and the Earls of Carlisle at this time were undeniably Whigs, it seems to follow that the arbitrary exclusion particular free-brothers from the ...

... steward, we have seen, -*- had begun to discriminate between those free-brothers who would make burgesses acceptable to his Whig master and those who would not. far as the Corporation constitution was concerned, however, his pidcing and choosing were quite ...

... beantiful shot from a difficult angle, but again saved well. West Sleekbum’s second goal was the result of clever play the right whig. After a passing movement which baffled the home defence, Aitehison was given little chance save a point-blank shot from Pearson ...

... ‘‘mandamus men.” ignored the twelve votes they had already accepted and returned Beckford and Sir Matthew as elected. HOUSE OF WHIGS Eyre once petitioned the new House Commons» arguing sensibly that if the mandamus men were nor burgesses, then the Court of ...